The Latest CachyOS Features Supercharged Kernel » Linux Magazine

Leave it to the developers of one of the most popular Linux distributions on the market, CachyOS, to show the competition by delivering a release that has a revamped kernel.

Linux kernel 7.0 is the core of the latest release, but it’s not just your standard vanilla kernel. Oh no. The developers of CachyOS have added several patches to boost performance, such as enabling Intel FRED for laptops with Intel Core Ultra Series 3 (Panther Lake) CPUs. They also enabled the new NTFS driver and improved multi-gen LRU, which is an alternative LRU implementation for optimizing page retrieval and improving performance under memory pressure.

The developers have also patched most of the DKMS drivers for compatibility and ensured that the ZFS module works properly.

When you couple those improvements with the usual CachyOS CPU optimizations, compiling it with x86-64-v3/v4 and Zen 4 instructions, LTO and PGO, as well as core tuning with the EEVDF scheduler, you get a noticeably faster OS.

CachyOS is based on Arch Linux, which means it is a rolling release. Users of the previous iteration should receive these updates in the normal way. Since CachyOS takes Arch Linux and gives it a significant performance boost, it’s easy to understand why it sits atop the DistroWatch Page Hit Ranking tool.

Find out more on the CachyOS X account.